Recreation Operations

Healthy & Socially Thriving

Parks & Recreation

FY2025 Budget

Program Budget Overview

Description

The Recreation Operations team performs the day-to-day management of the community’s recreation centers and outdoor pools along with sports, health and wellness, aquatics and general recreation programming. This team also operates the Boulder Reservoir and the Flatirons Golf Course.

 

Summary of 2025 Budget Enhancements and Realignments:

1) Maintains non-standard staffing amounts to align with service levels and realigns historically unspent non-personnel expense allocation to underfunded areas to address shortfalls.

2) Addresses cost escalation experienced with inflationary, contractual and mandated increases to maintain existing service levels and community benefit programming.

3) Transfers approximately $2.1 million in funding from the .25 Cent Sales Tax Fund to the Recreation Activity Fund to support athletic field and sports complex maintenance and community benefit services. 

Recreation Operations Subprograms:

Boulder Reservoir

The Boulder Reservoir is a 700-acre, multi-use recreation and water-storage facility, owned and managed by the City of Boulder and operated as a water supply by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. It is used for recreation, drinking water and irrigation. Popular recreation activities at the Reservoir include boating, swimming, sunbathing, water skiing, fishing, picnicking, walking, running, cycling and wildlife viewing.

Flatirons Golf Course

Flatirons Golf Course is open year-round and features an 18-hole golf course, practice facility, instruction programs, ProShop and special events with views of Boulder's Flatirons. The facility recently welcomed the grand opening of a newly constructed family-friendly restaurant and bar called Ironwood Bar and Grille with a gorgeous new lawn for the whole community to enjoy outdoor events.

Recreation Facilities

BPR facilities offer community members the opportunity to exercise and recreate in all four seasons, which consists of three recreation centers and two outdoor aquatic facilities. There are many amenities including: individual and group fitness programming, full-court gymnasium equipped with basketball and volleyball nets, indoor pools complete with play features and swim lessons, pool and meeting room rentals and more.

Recreation Services 

BPR offers and partners with local organizations to offer over 2,500 diverse types of recreation programs that promote physically and mentally active lifestyles for people of all backgrounds, ages and abilities. Some programs include a fee, while others are subsidized to ensure all members of the community have access to recreation. Gymnastics, a variety of camps, sports and youth-focused programs are a few examples that help ensure a healthy and active community.